Yclas vs GeoDirectory
GeoDirectory is a free WordPress directory plugin with paid add-ons in a yearly membership. Yclas is a hosted directory with hosting, AI, review tools, leads, deals and business data in one monthly price.
- 10 AI tools, built inIncluded in GeoDirectory: none. Each one is paid, partial or missing.
- 35 of 39 featuresin the comparison below are paid add-ons, partial or missing in GeoDirectory, each with its source.
- Live in about two minutesHosting, SSL, updates, backups and support are in one monthly price.
- Nothing to install or updateNo WordPress, theme or add-ons to keep in step: one plan, kept up to date for you.
GeoDirectory is a free directory plugin for WordPress, with 10,000+ active installs and version 2.8.197 from 23 October 2026. Paid listings, claims, several locations and ratings by criteria are paid add-ons, all of them in a membership from $139 a year. You run WordPress, its hosting, updates and backups; GeoDirectory says a hosted version will come with its version 3. Yclas is a hosted directory and classifieds platform with one monthly price.
Last checked: 24 October 2026. Facts about GeoDirectory come from its own website; the sources are listed at the end of this page.
AI that does the work for you.
Yclas puts AI into every part of a directory: building it, filling it, searching it and keeping it safe. Monthly AI use is included in every plan. Under each one, what GeoDirectory offers.
Describe a change, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview. 109 ready-made looks and drag-and-drop sections.
Say what your marketplace is for and the AI writes your categories, subcategories, tagline and About page in your language. Live in about two minutes.
Sellers add a photo; the AI writes the title, description and price, and picks the category and fields.
Visitors search the way they talk, such as "red bike under 300 near Valencia", and get the right filters.
Every new listing is checked against your rules for scams, prohibited items, spam and wrong categories. Risky ones wait in your queue with the reason, and buyers are warned when a message asks for gift cards or off-site payment.
On multilingual sites each listing is translated into every site language, with its own page for search engines (Professional plan).
The AI drafts a seller's reply from the listing and the conversation; the seller edits and sends it.
"What people say" from each listing's reviews, and visitors ask a question and get an answer from the listing and its reviews
The business gets a reply in the review's language and the tone it picks, and edits it before posting
A search title, description and intro for each "plumbers in Dallas" page, which you edit before saving
What changes for you.
What you get with Yclas that GeoDirectory doesn't include.
Yclas includes all of these, on every plan unless a plan is named. For GeoDirectory we list what its own website offers in the core and in its add-ons, which all come with the membership.
| Feature | Yclas | GeoDirectory |
|---|---|---|
| Business listings | ||
| Opening hours and "Open now" | Weekly hours, holidays and special days, an Open now badge and an Open now filter in search | Partly Business hours in the core; an Open now filter not listed [1] |
| Several locations per business | A business adds its other branches with address and phone; they show on its listing and the map | Paid add-on Franchise Manager add-on, from $39 [3] |
| Business details | Services and price list, social links, attributes such as wheelchair access or women-owned, and your own custom fields per category | Included 40+ custom field types in the core [1] |
| Events | Event dates, weekly, monthly or yearly repeats, a calendar of the month and "Add to calendar" for each event | Free add-on Free Events add-on, with daily, weekly, monthly and yearly repeats [8] |
| Compare listings | Visitors put up to 4 listings side by side | Paid add-on Compare Listings add-on, from $39 [3] |
| Claim your business | By a code sent to an address at the business's own domain, a code texted to its phone (with an SMS add-on), or your review; optionally only with a paid plan | Paid add-on Claim Listings add-on, from $49, with a verified badge; paid claims need Pricing Manager [5] |
| Fill your directory with real businesses | Open business data from Overture Maps included in your plan each month, CSV import, Google Places with your own key, and lists pasted and sorted by AI | Partly CSV import in the core; Social Importer (from $29) copies from Facebook, Yelp or TripAdvisor addresses; no business data included [3] |
| Making money from the directory | ||
| Paid listing levels | Plans you sell to businesses, each with its own number of photos and deals, statistics, a badge and members-only content (Professional plan) | Paid add-on Pricing Manager add-on, from $49: paid packages, pay per listing and recurring payments [4] |
| Featured listings and paid categories | Featured listings, bump to top, boost bundles, paid categories and coupons, paid into your own account | Paid add-on Featured listings at the top of results, with Pricing Manager [4] |
| Sponsored results | Businesses buy a sponsored place above a category's results for a number of days | Partly Featured listings shown first; no sponsored places listed [4] |
| Banner ads you sell | Advertisers buy a banner zone for some weeks, you approve it, and they see its views and clicks | Paid add-on Advertising add-on, from $49 [3] |
| Deals with vouchers | Offers on listings and a Deals page; each customer gets a voucher with a QR code the business scans to mark it used, with a report of vouchers given and used | Not offered No deals or vouchers add-on listed [3] |
| Charge businesses for leads | Per lead, or a number of leads included in their plan | Paid add-on Pay Per Lead add-on, from $49: owners pay to see the inquirer's details [3] |
| Bookings | Appointments and rentals with a calendar and instant booking (Professional plan); paid online with deposits on the Marketplace plan | Paid add-on Booking Appointments and Booking Marketplace add-ons, from $49 each [3] |
| Reviews and trust | ||
| Reviews with owner replies | Star reviews with photos and ratings by criteria, and the business replies under each one | Paid add-on Star reviews in the core; criteria, review photos and owner replies with MultiRatings and Reviews, from $49 [7] |
| Review invitations | The business emails customers a personal review link, or prints a QR poster for the counter | Not offered Not listed [3] |
| Rating badge and yearly awards | A badge with the listing's stars for the business's own website, and "Best of" awards for the top-rated each year | Paid add-on Ratings Badge add-on, from $39; yearly awards not listed [3] |
| Fake-review protection | Reviews that look bought or self-written wait for your team, and you can put a consumer alert on a listing | Not offered Not listed [3] |
| Verified and licensed badges | ID and business document checks, and Licensed and Insured badges from the documents a business sends | Partly A verified badge after a claim [5] |
| Leads and keeping businesses | ||
| Quote requests to the nearest businesses | One request goes to the closest matching businesses, and listings show how fast each one usually replies | Not offered Not listed: each inquiry goes to one listing [3] |
| Messages | Visitors and businesses write to each other inside the site, with photos and PDFs | Not offered Not among GeoDirectory's add-ons [3] |
| Statistics for each business | Views, calls, website, WhatsApp and directions clicks and the searches that found each listing, and a monthly report by email | Partly Free Google Analytics add-on with basic visitor stats on listings; no monthly report [3] |
| Newsletters and automated emails | One-off newsletters, and email series after signing up, a first listing or going quiet, with opens and clicks per email, sent through your own email service | Partly Dynamic User Emails (from $49) and Saved Search Notifications (from $49); no newsletters [3] |
| Growth and reach | ||
| Category and city pages for search | A page for every category in every city, with your own title and intro, LocalBusiness structured data, sitemaps and IndexNow | Partly City and region pages with Location Manager, from $49 [6] |
| Maps and "near me" | OpenStreetMap with no API key, or Google Maps; search the area on the map, by distance or near the visitor | Included Google Maps or OpenStreetMap, proximity and near-me search [1] |
| Many languages | 44 languages, right-to-left included; several at once on a multilingual site (Professional plan) | Free add-on Free WPML add-on, for translating by hand [3] |
| Your own iPhone app | Your directory as a branded app on the App Store, with push notifications, published for you (Marketplace plan) | Not offered No app listed [1] |
| API, webhooks and MCP | An API on every plan, webhooks for Zapier and Make (Professional) and an MCP server for AI assistants (Marketplace) | Partly A REST API; no webhooks or Zapier listed [1] |
| Running the directory | ||
| Hosting, SSL, updates and backups | Included in every plan, with support | Not offered Not included: you run WordPress hosting, updates and backups [9] |
A working site in year one.
Software, support and the things you need to keep a site online. Hosting for self-hosted software depends on the host you choose, so it is left out of their totals.
GeoDirectory
| GeoDirectory core plugin and the Directory theme [1] | Free |
|---|---|
| Membership, 1 site: every add-on and theme, a year of support and updates [2] | $139 |
| Or the membership for unlimited sites [2] | $229 a year |
| Or single add-ons, such as Pricing Manager for paid listings [4] | $49 a year each |
| WordPress hosting, updates and backups [9] | Your host's price |
| Year one | $139 + hosting |
When the membership ends, the add-ons keep working but support and updates stop. Recurring payments through WooCommerce need WooCommerce Subscriptions, sold separately. Hosting depends on the host you choose, so it is left out of the total.
Yclas
| Starter up to 5,000 listings · $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month | $678 |
|---|---|
| Professional up to 100,000 listings · $99 a month | $1,188 |
| Marketplace up to 300,000 listings · $149 a month | $1,788 |
| Included in the price | Hosting, SSL, updates, backups, support |
Year-one totals for each plan, from the pricing page. 15 days free first, with no credit card, and a 30-day money-back guarantee on every plan. Prices in US dollars; EU customers pay VAT unless they add a VAT number.
GeoDirectory and Yclas, point by point.
| Topic | GeoDirectory | Yclas |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A plugin for a WordPress site you host | A hosted directory, classifieds and marketplace platform: nothing to install |
| Software price | Free core; membership with every add-on $139 a year for one site, $229 for unlimited sites | $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month (Starter). Every plan includes hosting. |
| Server | You rent and run it, with WordPress; a hosted version is planned with version 3 | Included, with SSL on your own domain |
| Updates | You update WordPress, the theme, GeoDirectory and its add-ons; updates stop when the membership ends | Done for you |
| Filling the directory | CSV import; Social Importer copies listings from Facebook, Yelp or TripAdvisor addresses | Open business data included every month, CSV, Google Places and AI-sorted lists |
| Reviews | Reviews and ratings in the core; criteria, photos and owner replies with MultiRatings and Reviews | Replies, photos, ratings by criteria, invitations, a website badge, awards, AI summaries and reply drafts |
| Locations | One location in the core; countries, regions, cities and neighbourhoods with Location Manager | Locations and a page for every category in every city on every plan |
| AI help | None in the plugin today; a native AI version is planned with version 3 | Ten AI tools with monthly use included, from the page builder to review summaries and reply drafts |
| Phones | A responsive theme; no app listed | Your own branded iPhone app on the App Store (Marketplace plan); mobile-first themes |
| Latest release | 2.8.197, 23 October 2026; 10,000+ active installs on WordPress.org | Updated continuously, with nothing for you to install |
Also on every Yclas plan
- 44 languages, right-to-left included, multilingual sites and any currency
- Your own domain with one DNS record, and SSL set up automatically
- 17 payment gateways, including Stripe, PayPal, Mollie, Mercado Pago and Razorpay
- A money wizard that sets up paid posting, featured listings and plans in a few clicks
- Cookie consent that holds back analytics and ad code until visitors accept
- Reporting of illegal listings with a review queue, as the EU Digital Services Act asks
- Captcha with no setup, listing drafts that save themselves, and favourites
- Custom CSS and code, conditional custom fields and a catalogue of add-ons
- Ready-made connections for Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Slack and HubSpot
- A share kit with WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram and X buttons and a social image for every listing
The AI features and the page builder work with the Nova theme, the default for new sites. Compare plans →
Make it yours without hiring a developer.
With GeoDirectory, a design beyond the theme's options usually means paying a developer or designer. Yclas includes a page builder you use yourself: describe what you want, or change it by hand.
The Yclas page builder
- Describe the change in plain words, such as "darker hero, bigger search, rounder cards", and the AI makes it in a draft you preview before you publish.
- Start from 109 ready-made looks for cars, property, jobs, services, equipment and more, then change colours, fonts, buttons and spacing.
- Build pages from a library of sections: hero with search, categories, latest listings, how it works, locations, map, text, image and text, features, testimonials, FAQ, stats, call to action and logos, plus custom code sections for anything else.
- Drag sections into place, edit text right on the page, and check it on desktop, tablet and phone, next to your live site.
- Write and rewrite text with AI, and use free photos from Pexels and Unsplash or your own.
- Add pages, save blocks to reuse, undo any step, restore an earlier version, schedule publishing up to 90 days ahead, and share a preview link for 7 days.
Included in every plan. Want us to do it for you? Our team also does custom design and development.
Moving from GeoDirectory
Export your places as a CSV file and bring them in with the Yclas CSV import.
- Export your listings from GeoDirectory as a CSV file.
- Start a free trial, choose a business directory in the sign-up wizard, and open Move your site to Yclas, then choose CSV.
- Match the columns, check the dry run (a preview with any errors, nothing is saved yet), then import.
Listings come across with their categories, addresses, websites and photos from their web addresses, and owners as accounts. Passwords are not copied: imported users set a new one. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
When GeoDirectory may be the better choice
- Your directory is part of a WordPress site you want to keep in one place.
- You want a free directory to start with, and add paid features only when you need them.
- You run many directories: the $229 membership covers unlimited sites.
- You are happy to look after WordPress hosting and updates, or pay someone to.
If none of these fit, and you would rather spend your time on your directory than on a server, try Yclas.
Questions people ask
Other comparisons:
Is GeoDirectory free?
The core plugin is free. Paid listings need the Pricing Manager add-on, and claims, several locations and ratings by criteria are other add-ons; the membership with all of them costs $139 a year for one site or $229 for unlimited sites, plus your hosting.
Is GeoDirectory cheaper than Yclas?
On the price tag, yes: $139 a year for every add-on on one site. You also pay for hosting and keep WordPress, the theme and the add-ons updated. Yclas starts at $19 a month for 3 months, then $69 a month with hosting, updates, support and AI included.
Can I move my GeoDirectory listings to Yclas?
Yes. Export them as a CSV file and bring them in with the Yclas CSV import, after a dry run you can check. You can undo the latest import within 7 days.
Does Yclas have messages between visitors and businesses?
Yes. Visitors and businesses write to each other inside the site, with photos and PDFs, on every plan. Quote requests can go to the nearest matching businesses at once.
Can I fill a new Yclas directory with businesses?
Yes. Search open business data from Overture Maps and import the results as listings their owners can claim, with a number of records included every month. Google Places with your own key and CSV work too.
Sources
Checked on 24 October 2026. Prices change: the vendor's own page is always the latest word. If something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
- GeoDirectory on WordPress.org: 2.8.197, 10,000+ active installs, core features
- GeoDirectory membership: prices, what is included, what happens when it expires
- GeoDirectory add-ons and their prices
- GeoDirectory Pricing Manager ($49, $69 or $99 a year)
- GeoDirectory Claim Listings
- GeoDirectory Location Manager
- GeoDirectory MultiRatings and Reviews
- GeoDirectory Events (free)
- GeoDirectory vs Brilliant Directories: hosting, AI and the hosted version to come
- Codeable pricing: WordPress developers at $80 to $120 an hour
- Yclas pricing
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